authority that, in compliance with a proviso contained in the last will and testament of John Rose Swindell, late of Borrowash, in the county of Derby, but formerly of Powick, in the county of Worcester, Esquire, (the late father of the said Ann Jane Evers,) they and their issue may take, use, and bear the surname of Swindell, in addition to and after their own surname of Evers :

And to command that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in Her Majesty's College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.

Whitehall, June 24, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Charles Evers, of the Quarry, in the parish of Pedmore, in the county of Worcester, Esquire, in the Commission of the Peace for the county of Stafford, and to Elizabeth Mary, his wife, formerly Elizabeth Mary Rose Swindell, Her royal license and authority that, in compliance with a proviso contained in the last will and testament of John Rose Swindell, late of Borrowash, in the county of Derby, but formerly of Powick, in the county of Worcester, Esquire, (the late father of the said Elizabeth Mary Evers,) they and their issue may take, use, and bear the surname of Swindell, in addition to and after their own surname of Evers:

And to command that the said royal concession and declaration be registered in Her Majesty's College of Arms, otherwise to be void and of none effect.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Cardigan.
John Boultbee, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Dated 20th June 1851.

FROM THE

LONDON GAZETTE of JUNE 27,

1851.

By the QUEEN.

A PROCLAMATION.

In order to the Electing a Peer of Scotland.

VICTORIA, R.

WHEREAS James Andrew John Lawrence Charles Viscount Strathallan was duly elected and returned to be one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Peers in the present Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and is since deceased: In order to the electing another Peer of Scotland to sit in his room, We do, by the advice of our Privy Council, issue forth this our Royal Proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at Holyrood House at Edinburgh, on Wednesday the sixth day of August next ensuing, between the hours of twelve and two in the afternoon, to nominate and choose another Peer of Scotland to sit and vote in the House of Peers in this present Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of the said James Andrew John Lawrence Charles Viscount Strathallan, deceased, by open election and plurality of voices of the Peers that shall be then present, and

of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing duly signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and proxy being qualified according to law): and the Lord Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the Session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his name, are hereby respectively required to attend such meeting, and to adminster the oaths required by law to be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes; and immediately after such election made and duly examined, to certify the name of the Peer so elected, and to sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers the electors, and return such certificate into our High Court of Chancery of Great Britain and we strictly charge and command that this our Royal Proclamation be duly published at the Market Cross at Edinburgh, and in all the county towns of Scotland, twenty-five days at least before the time hereby appointed for the Meeting of the said Peers to proceed on such election.

Given at our Court at Buckingham-Palace,

this twenty-fifth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and in the fifteenth year of our reign.

God save the Queen.

This Gazette contains two Orders in Council, dated the 25th day of June 1851, approving the schemes prepared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England

Respecting the endowment of the University of Durham, and

For substituting money payments to the respective prebendaries of the prebends of Moreton

Magna and Moreton Parva, in the cathedral church of Hereford, for their interests in the estates of the said prebends.

Also three Orders in Council, dated the 25th day of June 1851, approving the representations duly prepared by Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches

That a particular district should be assigned to the consecrated church of the Holy Innocents, situate at Highnam, in the parish of Churcham, in the county of Gloucester, and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, and should be called "The district chapelry of Highnam."

That a particular district should be assigned to the consecrated church of Saint Mary Magdalene, situate at West Lavington, in the parish of Woollavington, in the county of Sussex, and diocese of Chichester, and should be called "The district chapelry of West Lavington."

That a particular district should be assigned to the consecrated church of Saint Philip and Saint James, situate at Hucclecote, in the parish of Churchdown, in the county of Gloucester, and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, and should be called "The district chapelry of Hucclecote."

This Gazette also contains two Orders in Council, dated the 25th day of June 1851, directing in conformity to the reports from the General Board of Health, that the Public Health Act 1848, and every part thereof, except the section numbered 50 in the copies of that Act printed by Her Majesty's printers, shall be applied to and be in force within and throughout

The parish of Penrith, in the county of Cumberland;

The township of Wavertree, in the parish of Childwall, in the county palatine of Lancaster; That each of such places should be and constitute a district for the purposes of the said Public Health Act, should have a Local Board of Health established therein, and containing such instructions and regulations for the election of members of such Local Boards as are applicable to each of the said districts.

Buckingham-Palace, June 25, 1851.

This day had audience of Her Majesty: His Excellency Monsieur Drouyn de Lhuys, Ambassador Extraordinary from the French Republic, to deliver his letter of recall;

To which he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B. Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel the Honourable Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H. Master of the Ceremonies.

Foreign-Office, June 24, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edward Ryan as Consul at Quebec for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

Downing-Street, June 25, 1851.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lambert De Nieuwerkerk, Esq. to be Assistant ReceiverGeneral of Berbice, in the colony of British Guiana.